Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speeches, other Administration officials echoed Nixon, calling student rebels "ideological criminals" and "new barbarians." Said Attorney General John Mitchell: "The time has come for an end to patience. I call for an end to minority tyranny on the nation's campuses and for the immediate re-establishment of civil peace and the protection of individual rights...
There is a widespread opinion among Harvard students and Faculty that membership in the academic community permits on to violate civil laws with impunity on campus. Such thinking is behind the so called "moderate" Mem Church Group's statement that the University Hall trespassers were not criminals and the Faculty's overwhelming vote to drop trespassing charges...
...what for SDS? Let them be elegant martyrs--win sympathy, but have as little impact on the power structure that keeps it all going as the Civil Rights workers had on the Southern power structure. Gregory K. Pilkington...
This too was an idea rooted in practicality. The real goal of the ROTC protests, Calkins said was to end the war. Just getting ROTC off Harvard territory won't that. What the protestors need to do is to win a national following--the civil rights marchers did in the South. National sympathy, he said, was the only way to have a successful campaign...
...does the country hate these protestors? Because their dissents not "elegant." Calkins says the key the civil rights victory was the elegance of its protests. The people were martyrs to their cause. Protestors who demand amnesty aren't martyrs. And so the tactic Calkins suggested on television and in talks with students was for University Hall demonstrates to accept punishment willingly. Then their protest would be effective...